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...massacre was a terrifying addition to the history of the Holocaust as recognized by the West. In 1961, Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko wrote a poem to memorialize those who died at Babi Yar. Family members of the victims kept their pictures, and last week they were finally able to mourn at the grave of their relatives...
...those who stand to profit from the collapse of the Soviet Union lick their greasy lips over the possibilities of a vast, now-tamed Russian marketplace, let us hope that they pause for just a minute to mourn what they are destroying...
...every writer is willing to mourn the passage of Boris and Natasha. The man who renewed the espionage genre back in 1963, when he brought his spy in from the cold, believes the glass is half full. "If the spy novelist of today can rise to the challenge," claims le Carre, "he has got it made. He can sweep away the cobwebs of a world grown old and cold and weary . . . and take on any number of new hunting grounds...
Black-clad German skinheads from both parts of the newly united country parade through the streets of Dresden to mourn their hero Rainer Sonntag, killed by a gang of pimps in a dispute over turf. Silent onlookers and 1,500 police watch as the 2,000 neo-Nazis raise their arms and shout, "Sieg heil!" and "Foreigners...
...only be achieved by adding to the suffering of humanity. In the end, even our lives will not be enriched unless positive action is taken to alleviate the causes of suffering and resentment in the Middle East and in the U.S., the killing will continue. Unless we learn to mourn for our victims, for all victims, we will lose our own human dignity. Jonathan Dresner